From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/16761 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill McClain Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: stretched text Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:32:53 -0500 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20041025103253.09ec2328@atipa.local> References: <20041025140610.GA7337@mnw.art.pl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098718389 9835 80.91.229.6 (25 Oct 2004 15:33:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:33:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Oct 25 17:32:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CM6q6-0007dx-00 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:32:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40199127DF; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:32:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12351-03-4; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:32:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D609D127E0; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:32:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D74127E0 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:32:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12351-03-3 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:32:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hall.mail.mindspring.net (unknown [207.69.200.60]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4579127DF for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:32:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 0-1pool120-128.nas9.cedar-rapids1.ia.us.da.qwest.net ([67.1.120.128] helo=atipa.local) by hall.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1CM6q1-0005I7-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:32:50 -0400 Original-Received: from atipa.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atipa.local (Postfix) with SMTP id 958C345721 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:32:53 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20041025140610.GA7337@mnw.art.pl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-suse-linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:16761 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:16761 On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:06:10 +0200 kopszak@mnw.art.pl (Piotr Kopszak) wrote: > Hello, > > I know it's a bad habit to use stretched text, but apparently > formerly people thought differently. I am typesetting old quotations > and would not want to replace stretched text simply by emphasized. Is > it absolutely discouraged in ConTeXt or is there any way to have > it... (in spite of its ugliness). It's still recommended in certain cases, for example in all capital or small cap titles. Sometimes I do it and sometimes not. You can do it in Context. See: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#typography-letterspacing You might have to look into the sources to find other options. -Bill -- Sattre Press In the Quarter http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers info@sattre-press.com http://sattre-press.com/itq.html